WoRMS taxon details
Sebastes melanops Girard, 1856
274817 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274817)
accepted
Species
Sebastes (Sebastosomus) melanops Girard, 1856 · alternative representation
Sebastodes melanops (Girard, 1856) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Sebastes melanops Girard, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=274817 on 2025-03-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | black rockfish | [details] |
| French | sébaste noir | [details] |
| Japanese | アラスカクロメヌケ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications) (from synonym Sebastodes melanops (Girard, 1856))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes melanops)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastodes melanops (Girard, 1856))
To FishBase images (Sebastes melanops, USA, by Lonhart, S.I.)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (56570 nucleotides; 200 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (52 publications) (from synonym Sebastodes melanops (Girard, 1856))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sebastes melanops)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Sebastodes melanops (Girard, 1856))
To FishBase images (Sebastes melanops, USA, by Lonhart, S.I.)
To FishSounds
To GenBank (56570 nucleotides; 200 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To ITIS
